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November 20
269 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard.
1695 Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush.
1700 Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.
1903 In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.
1914 Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War.
1928 Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole).
1931 Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.
1943 U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific.
1945 The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.
1947 Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
1950 U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.
1955 The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.
1962 President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
1967 U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.
1971 The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.
1974 The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide.
1982 South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.
Born on November 20
1858 Selma Lagerdorf, Swedish novelist (The Story of Gosta Berling).
1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer who proved that there are other galaxies far from our own.
1908 Alistair Cooke, English journalist, television host.
1916 Thomas McGrath, poet and novelist.
1923 Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist.
1925 Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, New York senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated while running for president.
1936 Don DeLillo, author (White Noise, Libra).

1837 - Republic of Texas Secretary of State Robert A. Irion recommended in his annual report that the republic grant copyrights.

1887 - Eck Robertson was born. He was a legendary fiddler who grew up in the Texas Panhandle and went on to record the first commercial recordings of country music.

1934 - The American Legion began selling silver fifty-cent pieces to commemorate the Centennial of Texas Independence.

1943 - Staff Sgt. William James Bordelon of San Antonio and First Lt. William Dean Hawkins of El Paso earned the Medal of Honor for their heroic actions in the battle for the Pacific island of Tarawa.

It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi

Originally Posted by Carol

When I judge someone's integrity one key thing I look at is - How does s/he treat people s/he doesn't agree with or does not like?
I can respect someone who I do not agree with, but I have NO respect for someone who puts others down in a public forum. That is the hallmark of someone who has no integrity, and cannot be trusted.